Huaiyu, the legitimate daughter of the Wen family, grew up in an embroidered household of a wealthy family. She could read a thousand words at the age of three and could play chess at the age of five. Her mother taught her "Nei Principles" and her father taught her to read account books. At the beginning, she was a delicate flower in a glass cup, and she would lower her eyes and twist her skirt when seeing a foreign man. However, when she went to the royal flower viewing banquet with her grandmother, she dared to defend the humiliated maid, and her every word became clearer and clearer than jade. When I was young, I learned to manage household affairs, the ink on my account books changed from crooked to straight, and when I held the keys to the warehouse in my palm, I could already make things difficult for each room with a smile.
Her husband, Gu Yunzhou, was a prince with military power. They first met at the Hundred Flowers Banquet, where she made a great show. He came after hearing the news, and the only understandable but unspeakable feeling between the two became stronger with time. After getting married, the palace's internal affairs were complicated. She used the checks and balances she learned in her boudoir to straighten things out. When he went on an expedition, he secretly transported the palace's grain reserves to the front line. The letter only said, "The rear is safe, you can rest assured."
Over the course of several years, Huaiyu grew from a concubine's legitimate daughter to a confidant who could discuss border defense with the prince when playing chess. Gu Yunzhou often sighed to his staff: "I guard the four sides, but I can't guard the backyard half as well as she does." Under the red candle, he looked at her side face checking the ration list, and he vaguely saw the girl with clear eyes down the slope that year.
